Kieran Snyder, the co-founder and former CEO of Seattle-based Textio, has launched her next project, less than two months after stepping back from the augmented writing startup. In an email… Read More
Textio, the Seattle-based augmented writing platform, conducted a “broad team reorganization” this week, according to co-founder and CEO Kieran Snyder. Snyder said the 9-year-old startup adjusted the balance of its… Read More
Patience. Teamwork. Goal setting. A desire to compete. The place where you work and the buzzwords you hear might have a lot in common with what’s happening on a kids’… Read More
In addition to the usual questions about pay and benefits and culture and so on, a climate of economic uncertainty in the tech sector should have job seekers asking tougher… Read More
What’s the impact of the words we use? Augmented writing platform Textio uses machine learning and natural language processing to take the guesswork out of business communication, offering predictive analytics… Read More
Seattle-based augmented writing startup Textio has always sought to help people better communicate where they do their work, whether it’s in Gmail, Outlook or elsewhere. Now Textio is bringing the… Read More
A new study on the use of jargon in job ads has identified the worst offenders in the U.S. And we’d like to have a word with Washington state. The… Read More
That Seattle has a homelessness crisis isn’t in dispute; how to solve it is. Stepping right into the middle of the fray is Compassion Seattle, an initiative that seeks to… Read More
Seattle-based augmented writing startup Textio has closed a $12 million funding round as the company looks to expand beyond the enterprise market. The news comes on the heels of cutbacks… Read More
Textio, the Seattle startup whose augmented writing platform helps companies use language that attracts the right job candidates, laid off 30 employees on Friday, or 20 percent of its team.… Read More
A modern analysis of Jeff Bezos’ first-ever job ad for Amazon, posted 25 years ago today, shows that the ad would rate “very weak” by today’s standards and even offers… Read More
Textio, a Seattle startup that helps companies write better job listings, today introduced a new feature that uses artificial intelligence to speed up the writing process. Textio Flow allows business… Read More
Textio, the Seattle startup that provides an “augmented writing” platform to help companies put together better job postings, has raised $20 million to expand its offerings to other types of… Read More
In an email back to our new Geek of the Week, who happens to have a PhD in linguistics and once helped build spell-checkers at Microsoft, I told her I’d be… Read More
Twitter raised the bar for the conversation around diversity in the technology industry on Friday, not just releasing its own women and minority statistics — but publicly setting goals for… Read More
It’s only been five months since Kieran Snyder and Jensen Harris left corporate jobs for the startup world, but they’ve already landed some funding for their new company. Harris confirmed that Textio just closed a $1.5… Read More